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The Team

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Valeria Barbi

Environmental Journalist

Author and Scientific Coordinator of WANE - We Are Nature Expedition

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scientist and biodiversity expert. Environmental journalist and writer. Political scientist and naturalist by training. Explorer by vocation. She has travelled to 5 continents and 44 countries to observe the behaviour of other species and investigate the relationship between man and nature. Author of ‘What is Biodiversity Today’, published in 2022 by Edizioni Ambiente and WANE - We Are Nature Expedition, a reportage that took her into the field for 22 months to document the state of biodiversity and the human-nature relationship along the Pan-American Highway, from Alaska to Argentina. Co-author of a handbook on environmental communication, published by Franco Angeli. Her second book, edited by Editori Laterza, on the WANE expedition will be published in 2025. She edits a column on GEO, Rai3. She writes in various publications including Lifegate, Pianeta 2030 of Corriere della Sera, La Rivista della Natura, Materia Rinnovabile. She is a member of the Commission for Communication and Education of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 24Ore Business School and ISPI. Consultant for the public and private sectors. Speaker at national and international events. She was named Hummingbird of Honour of Save The Planet for her commitment to nature. Ambassador of the European Climate Pact and member of EuClipa.

 

Everything she does, and everything she says, is aimed at continuing to live on a Planet where there will always be paths traveled by elephants.

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Davide

Photographer and video maker

Documentarist and and Technical Manager of WANE - We Are Nature Expedition

 

Documentary filmmaker. His photos have been published in newspapers, magazines and online publications. His shot immortalising one of the last specimens of the Galapagos giant tortoise was chosen as the cover image of La Rivista della Natura, which hosted the reportage about the impacts of alien species and mass tourism on the archipelago, which is also part of the WANE project. His reports were aired on GEO - Rai3. Cloud technology and data management expert. He is also an IT specialist with more than 10 years of expertise as a project manager on a leading multinational company of the Digital Transformation sector. Passionate about cartography and contributor to OpenStreetMap. Sailor by passion. Thinks that only on a boat can this love be consummated to the full. A backpacker, in everyday life he is an urban cyclist always on the lookout for new adventures. He has made curiosity his main characteristic.

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He has made curiosity his main characteristic.

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aVANdiscovery

Our home and office for a year.

 

A low-emission van equipped to travel to unexplored and out-of-the-way places.

 

Here, our work, interviews and data are transformed into words and video.

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